Quaker Organization Info

We are finishing up our membership course this evening. This is the first time I’ve taken a group through the process and it’s been a lot of fun. For this last part I wanted to create a document of some of the important Quaker organizations in the world. I know there are more but these seem to be the ones that I hear referenced most often. If there are others that need to be on here feel free to let us know (and tell us why!). Feel free to share this around, download, etc.

Our Local Friends’ Connections

We are the men, women, and children of sixty-seven churches in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington who join together to worship God, to serve Jesus Christ both personally and through outreach ministries, and to pray that, through the leading of the Holy Spirit, we will impact society with love in action. As a denomination, the Friends Church, often called Quakers, are historically seekers of God’s will.

The Pacific Northwest Quaker Women’s Theology Conference welcomes women primarily from Canadian, North Pacific and Northwest Yearly Meetings. As women from divergent Friends traditions, we strive to articulate that which has been meaningful in the expression and development of our faith. We are open to God’s leadings and willing to make a commitment to prepare, to risk, and to be open to learning from one another.

Wider World Friends Connections

The biggest Quaker community online. Quaker Quaker reaches across the many groups withinSome of the Need to Know Quaker Organizations For New MembersQuakerism and encourages fresh reflections and perspectives on the Quaker faith. Here peopleinteract with one another through blogging, commenting, video, photography, podcasts, etc.

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Quaker organization that includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace and humanitarian service. Our work is based on the principles of the Religious Society of Friends, the belief in the worth of every person, and faith in the power of love to overcome violence and injustice.

We believe God calls us to the right sharing of world resources, from the burdens of materialism and poverty into the abundance of God’s love, to work for equity through partnerships with our sisters and brothers throughout the world.

Quaker Quest aims to help you find out about the Quaker way of life. We have found that people enquiring about us want to experience Quaker worship, hear why being a Quaker matters to us, talk to each other and us about it and get an idea what sort of people we are.

Evangelical Friends International exists to help local Friends churches around the world meet the spiritual needs of their communities. Our desire is to stretch across racial, cultural, national, even denominational barriers to reach people with the life-changing love of Christ.

Founded in 1900, FGC has grown from a voluntary organization of seven yearly meetings created to hold a “general conference” every other year into a vibrant association of fourteen yearly meetings and regional groups and ten directly-affiliated monthly meetings that serves Quakers year-round with a vast array of programs and services.